From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
To: hub@point-barre.fr
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Sound drops
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:42:07 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903102242.JAA08373@tango.anu.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990310152621.H896@giordino.point-barre.fr> (message from Hubert Figuiere on Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:26:21 +0100)
Hubert Figuiere <hub@point-barre.fr> wrote:
> I don't like to work in silence, so I usually play back a
> bunch of mp3 with xaudio under Linux PPC from my PowerBook.
>
> The problem is that I get a lot of sound drops like if the machine
> were "mono-tasking". I have never had this with PC hardware under Linux.
>
> It appears that those drops occurs when doing intensive graphics like
> a Netscape redrawing or a huge text scroll within an xterm. This happens
> with Xpmac or XFB_Dev.
One thing to try is `hdparm -u1 /dev/hda'. That sets the IDE driver
to allow interrupts during transfers to/from your hard disk. I don't
know if it will help in your particular case, but it's worth trying.
Paul.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-10 14:26 Sound drops Hubert Figuiere
1999-03-10 18:41 ` Hollis R Blanchard
1999-03-10 21:11 ` Michel Lanners
1999-03-10 22:42 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
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